“Italy has a wrong death count”

Published on: 11/19/2020 5:36 PM

“We are also wrong when counting the dead. We count differently from the rest of Europe.” These are the words of Professor Matteo Bassetti in L’aria che tira. “When we change the methodology for counting deaths, the fatality is falling dramatically. But we have an original sin linked to March and April: Anyone who came to the hospital with a positive swab, even if they had a heart attack, was classified as dead by covid. “says Bassetti. “If after 9 months we do not know how to look back and admit a mistake, we will continue to be considered among the worst in Europe. I don’t like it as a doctor, we have a higher mortality than India. mainly a counting problem ”, he adds.

The hypothesis of opening to the arrival of foreign doctors is discussed. Are you sure that foreign doctors want to come to work in Italy where we pay them a third of what they are paid in any other European state? The problem is not to open, the problem is if they come. Italian doctors are among the best doctors in the world and those who can escape abroad. We pay them less and make them work more. In Italy, when you do things right, there is still someone who tells you that it is wrong. The doctors are leaving Italy and they are doing well. There is an exit market and not an entry market. Let us be open to foreign doctors and perhaps low-level ones will come here, from countries where there is no adequate training ”.